Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay
Christian Ernest Marclayis a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth11 January 1955
CountrySwitzerland
layer material music recognize share triggers
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.
banality statements
Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.
photography eye quality
Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer.... I often see things after the fact. This revelatory quality includes a sense of playfulness, because you're not sure what the consequences are going to be.
photography thinking phones
[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.
dream eye facts
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
together
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
painter
I have never been much of a painter.
editing long sitting
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
editing together pieces
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.